Families who qualified for the most financial aid also reported the biggest drop in trouble paying medical bills during the first six months of subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

The man slated to take over as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the agency never reviewed the efficacy of manufacturers' instructions for cleaning and reprocessing medical endoscopes associated with the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.

More than half of people who signed up for health insurance through a state exchange or the federal HealthCare.gov website have to repay a portion of their premium subsidy, according to an analysis by H&R Block.

Sending reminders to parents to get their children vaccinated was more effective and cost-efficient when physicians collaborated with public health departments compared with practice-based notification efforts, a new study found.

Kaiser Permanente is often viewed as the gold standard of successful health systems but, rather than ape what it has done, others seem intent on finding their own paths to the promised land of value-based care.

Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, is usually an astute observer of the healthcare scene. But his latest column on the Wall Street Journal website missed identifying the main drivers behind the recent uptick in healthcare spending.

As changing healthcare delivery models continue to shift patients from inpatient to outpatient settings, it is becoming almost unheard of for certain common surgical procedures to require inpatient care, according to data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

When Inovalon, the first digital health IPO of 2015, was planning its initial stock offering, it hoped to raise $500 million. But it garnered about $100 million more when its shares began trading this week, a sign of continued investor bullishness for the health tech sector.

It isn't exactly surprising that all four individual plaintiffs in the King v. Burwell case have dubious legal standing to pursue their challenge to Obamacare's premium subsidies before the U.S. Supreme Court. Similar legal standing questions arose in 2011 about the two individual...

Increasingly, households have insurance that requires patients to spend $1,000 or more before health plans offset the cost of medical care. As households seek less care to avoid the cost, the nation spends less on healthcare. That frugality is not without cost, however.

An HHS advisory committee is expected to upend years of nutritional advice to Americans by saying it no longer considers cholesterol a “nutrient of concern for over-consumption” when it issues a report expected in several weeks.

The U.S. spends more healthcare dollars in hospitals than anywhere else, and that makes hospitals an attractive target of efforts to increase productivity. Federal statistics suggest they've lagged behind the rest of the economy, but new research has a different take.

The hack on health insurer Anthem's IT system was by far the largest known healthcare data breach, exposing information belonging to as many as 80 million current and former customers and employees. But Several other healthcare breaches each affected more than a million people. Here's how they...

The onset of certain physical changes in patients with advanced cancer may signal that death is likely within three days, according to new research that could lead to improvements in the quality of care the patients receive at the very end stages of the disease.

Congressional Republican leaders are hoping their new Obamacare repeal-and-replace proposal will convince Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court that it's safe to strike down the premium subsidies at the heart of the healthcare reform law.

The death rate among black people living with HIV fell by 28% over the past few years, but the annual number of deaths within this group remains much higher compared with other racial groups, according to a government report released this week.

The theory behind consumer-driven health plans is that people who have them will use healthcare more prudently because they have to pay for services from their own savings accounts. But the generally low balances in them raise questions about whether they do enough to make healthcare affordable.

While fewer Americans are exposed to secondhand smoke than a decade ago, the high rates of exposure among children, blacks and low-income groups highlight continuing disparities among certain groups for certain health risk factors.

Getting big-ticket medical devices, drugs and procedures covered by Medicare is getting harder, according to a new analysis of national coverage decisions between 1999 and 2012. The CMS was about 20 times more likely to say no in the more recent years.

What patients with health insurance spend out-of-pocket for a handful of common medical services varies greatly, according to a new analysis that suggests patients can benefit from shopping around but often don't because of the entrenched lack of price transparency in healthcare.

The odd mix of people invited to the White House for last week's announcement on precision medicine ranged from top health officials to basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and that strange cross-section of attendees probably wasn't an accident.